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you've got romney obama debate. big bird. >> and jobs. so we see the focus on it was mostly about the economy, you see the focus on the substance of this debate as opposed to ustthe zingers and squabbling between the candidates and i was fascinated by the role of xbox. >> xbox is a controller you can use in your living room to play games on your television set and there's a subscription called xbox live. you can play with people by using a game controller. well, what happened last night is that xbox decided to let the video of the debate stream and they posed questions to gameers saying "at this moment who would you vote for?" immediately you had obama 75% of the gamers say yes or mitt romney 10% of the gamers say yes. it's a big figure but you get the point. >> even though this is only about 10,000 participated in this microsoft game, these are mostly younger men, 18 to 29 not plugged into politics who are harder to reach and the fact that they were engaged in answering these questions about presidential debate i think is a watershed mom
you've got romney obama debate. big bird. >> and jobs. so we see the focus on it was mostly about the economy, you see the focus on the substance of this debate as opposed to ustthe zingers and squabbling between the candidates and i was fascinated by the role of xbox. >> xbox is a controller you can use in your living room to play games on your television set and there's a subscription called xbox live. you can play with people by using a game controller. well, what happened last...
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republicans hoping to challenge president obama next year face their final debate tonight, before the iowa caucuses. former house speaker newt gingrich has surged into the lead ahead of the january third voting. gingrich told iowa public television today, that voters are looking beyond his past marital infidelity and ethical problems. >> i have tried to answer questions in a very candid way and i think that's part of it, is that people accept the sincerity of my willingness to talk with them about my life and to talk to them about where i am today. and what i will try to accomplish. >> sreenivasan: fellow republicans mitt romney, ron paul and others have stepped up their criticism of gingrh as unreliable on a number of levels. the use of chimpanzees in u.s. medical research may be coming to an end. the institute of medicine recommended today that most experiments involving chimps can no longer be justified. instead, it said such research should be a last resort. the institute is an arm of the national academy of sciences. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to jeff. >
republicans hoping to challenge president obama next year face their final debate tonight, before the iowa caucuses. former house speaker newt gingrich has surged into the lead ahead of the january third voting. gingrich told iowa public television today, that voters are looking beyond his past marital infidelity and ethical problems. >> i have tried to answer questions in a very candid way and i think that's part of it, is that people accept the sincerity of my willingness to talk with...
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president obama won reelection. so now it's clearly the law of the land and for all of us now we've got to try to make sure it gets implemented effectively state after state. i think that will happen and it certainly will happen in the timely manner startg january 2014. >> woodruff: and you're saying what's happened today and these other states, especially those with republican governors which were not expected potentially to go along with medicaid expansion, this will make a difference? >> i think it's going to make a huge difference i think the dominos are falling. i think you'll see many republican governors doing it. 100% paid by the federal government and the states are saving money in terms of their cause for uncompensated care, this is a good deal. >> woodruff: i know we'll come back to this in the future. ron pollock in washington, paul howard in new york, we thank you both. >> thank you. >> suarez: we return to the conflict in syria where more than 50 people were killed and hundreds more were injured in a d
president obama won reelection. so now it's clearly the law of the land and for all of us now we've got to try to make sure it gets implemented effectively state after state. i think that will happen and it certainly will happen in the timely manner startg january 2014. >> woodruff: and you're saying what's happened today and these other states, especially those with republican governors which were not expected potentially to go along with medicaid expansion, this will make a difference?...
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before you debate barack obama on foreign policy, you better finish the debate with yourself. >> woodruff: today the new obama ad pointed to romney's much criticized overseas trip during th summer to argue he lacks xperiencend clari o foreign affairs. >> reckless. amateurish. that's what news media and fellow republicans called mitt romney's gaffe-filled july tour of israel and poland. >> woodruff: all of this played out as the president himself was in southern california. he declared the home of the late farm workers' union leader caesar chavez a national landmark. he also held fund-raisers in los angeles and san francisco. his campaign and the democratic national committee raised $181 million in september the most for any month this year. but money aside, it appears romney's performance in last week's highly watched debate has improved his standing in the race. a new gallup tracking poll found the candidates in a dead heat, each receiving 47% among registered voters. the president had held a five-point advantage before the debate. and the pew research center showed romney coming from ei
before you debate barack obama on foreign policy, you better finish the debate with yourself. >> woodruff: today the new obama ad pointed to romney's much criticized overseas trip during th summer to argue he lacks xperiencend clari o foreign affairs. >> reckless. amateurish. that's what news media and fellow republicans called mitt romney's gaffe-filled july tour of israel and poland. >> woodruff: all of this played out as the president himself was in southern california. he...
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what is the task or let's just talk about the first debate which is next wednesday. >> so obama i think his task is reasonably clear, just be calm, stay calm, whatever that british slogan we're all repeating now, stay calm and in control. he just has to be calm. and somebody made a good point. he had a pretty bad week in the middle east or two wokes in the middle east but he reacted with calmness. so he sort of gets a pass on really what is sort of a chaotic administration policy. romney is the one with the burden. and so i do think he says, he has to say listen, i haven't been a great candidate but if you elect me there are four organizations i'm going to fix. i am going to fix the tax code -- >> i think romney can remember four. >> it is just too many for people to remember. three, believable. >> okay, do tax code, energy policy and dot political system. or go say hey this guy won't talk about the fiscal cliff, i will cut a deal. i will cut a deal to so we don't go off the fiscal cliff so business can have some confidence that would be the sort of unusual thing i think would be a prac
what is the task or let's just talk about the first debate which is next wednesday. >> so obama i think his task is reasonably clear, just be calm, stay calm, whatever that british slogan we're all repeating now, stay calm and in control. he just has to be calm. and somebody made a good point. he had a pretty bad week in the middle east or two wokes in the middle east but he reacted with calmness. so he sort of gets a pass on really what is sort of a chaotic administration policy. romney...
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care debate because they were looking for less of an age rating or i should say a looser age rating ban. they knew that young people were going to be charged more than their fair share to subsidize a health insurance plan for older, sicker americans. it's unfair and it's bad policy. it crushes us in our leanest years by taking more of our hard-earned wealth in order to subsidize those that have more than us. >> suarez: the market opens in several months. that october 1 day is is looming. are you starting from square one with a lot of people in this age range about what is out there, what it means for them and what's available to them now? >> i see two challenges. the first challenge i see is making sure that young people who have never or a locality of them have never actually experienced the insurance market, again for a variety of reasons, traditionally there weren't low-cost options available, really beginning to understand what insurance means. what a deductible is, what a copay is, how that impacts their choices and what choices they decide to make. that's one piece of it. the
care debate because they were looking for less of an age rating or i should say a looser age rating ban. they knew that young people were going to be charged more than their fair share to subsidize a health insurance plan for older, sicker americans. it's unfair and it's bad policy. it crushes us in our leanest years by taking more of our hard-earned wealth in order to subsidize those that have more than us. >> suarez: the market opens in several months. that october 1 day is is looming....
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plan and tonight's tea party debate among g.o.p. candidates in florida. that's on our politics page. plus every monday on our art beat blog, find a weekly poem. today valerie nieman reads from her work. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. gwen? >> ifill: and that's the newshour for tonight. on tuesday, we'll review tonight's tea party presidential debate and provide a first look at jim lehrer's new book on moderating debates. i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. we'll see you online, and again here tomorrow evening. thank you, and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: chevron. we may have more in common than you think. bnsf. and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from view
plan and tonight's tea party debate among g.o.p. candidates in florida. that's on our politics page. plus every monday on our art beat blog, find a weekly poem. today valerie nieman reads from her work. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. gwen? >> ifill: and that's the newshour for tonight. on tuesday, we'll review tonight's tea party presidential debate and provide a first look at jim lehrer's new book on moderating debates. i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm...
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>> where things stand is we've had a theo logical debate over the last two or three days. they finally agreed or they almost agreed that nato can help command and control the operation so nato can help run the operation. what's left are the minor details of who is going to command it. what the goals are. they've spent two or three gays having a debate where the british and french seem to be at loggerheads. the turks have been angry. now they finally agreed that to do a deal just what remains will actually work out what tha deal is. >> warner: you mean the really big questions haven't been resolved? >> the deal will almost certainly involve nato providing its command and control facilities to help control. the u.s. and the brits have said there isn't really alternative to the americans who want to do it and nato which can do this and wants to do this in terms of coordinating effort. but what the french have said is that it sends exactly the wrong message for it to be a nato mission. that might alienate arab countries. so you have this idea that it is going to be nato comman
>> where things stand is we've had a theo logical debate over the last two or three days. they finally agreed or they almost agreed that nato can help command and control the operation so nato can help run the operation. what's left are the minor details of who is going to command it. what the goals are. they've spent two or three gays having a debate where the british and french seem to be at loggerheads. the turks have been angry. now they finally agreed that to do a deal just what...
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the obama people are talking about what a good debater governor romney is, but the romney people are talking about a good debater governor romney is. that is because they need to reassure their supporters that this race isn't over. it's still close. he can turn it around and the debates will be an opportunity to do this. >> woodruff: this is a different period of expectation setting, stu, than what we normally see. >> a little bit. i think susan is exactly right. i saw robert gibbs on television a couple days ago. he was talking about mitt romney has debated so much times and the president hasn't debated in four years. i think they are trying to lower expectations but you don't hear that same thing from the roey camp. some of this is a need, a desire, to create some momentum on the part of the challenger when there is, you know, so much finger pointing mostly by conservatives and republicans complaining about the romney campaign. >> woodruff: and there's been a fair amount of that. stu, what about in terms of setting the table for substance in are there things the candidates are talk
the obama people are talking about what a good debater governor romney is, but the romney people are talking about a good debater governor romney is. that is because they need to reassure their supporters that this race isn't over. it's still close. he can turn it around and the debates will be an opportunity to do this. >> woodruff: this is a different period of expectation setting, stu, than what we normally see. >> a little bit. i think susan is exactly right. i saw robert gibbs...
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you have to open up to debate. barack obama ran on transparency and open debate. i don't see that being present in this. >> pelley: . >> a couple things. first, we live an age of data. what the government has done to our phone records, private companies are doing that every single day. if you have a credit card, they're looking at the vast array of spending patterns every single day. this is happening to us every single day. this is part of the age we live in. should we have known that they are doing this to the phone records? to some extent we already did know this but we probably should have known. the secrecy of the program was a mistake, i agree. >> woodruff: in other words, you're saying the government should have told everybody "we're doing this." but then the other argument is they're telling the terrorists. >> if you're aa terrorist you assume the phone records are being used in this way. but they still have the responsibility if they see somebody -- if they see these boston guys, the bombers, calling some number and then they want to trace the links to th
you have to open up to debate. barack obama ran on transparency and open debate. i don't see that being present in this. >> pelley: . >> a couple things. first, we live an age of data. what the government has done to our phone records, private companies are doing that every single day. if you have a credit card, they're looking at the vast array of spending patterns every single day. this is happening to us every single day. this is part of the age we live in. should we have known...
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president obama jump-starts a heated political debate surrounding the building of an islamic center near ground zero in manhattan. for weeks the white house avoided comment. >> i think this is a ... rightly a matter for new york city and the local community to decide. >> ifill: but on friday evening at the annual white house dinner marking the start of the muslim holy month of ramadan, the president weighed in. instantly igniting the essentially local issue into a national debate. >> i believe that muslims have the right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country. that includes .... ( applause ) ... that includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower man hat hand in accordance with local laws and ordinances. >> ifill: it is the location of the proposed $100 million islamic center that is at issue. as planned it would stand just two blocks from ground zero. republican representative peter king of new york, among others, said the president missed the point. >> no one is saying there's not a right to build the mosque. the
president obama jump-starts a heated political debate surrounding the building of an islamic center near ground zero in manhattan. for weeks the white house avoided comment. >> i think this is a ... rightly a matter for new york city and the local community to decide. >> ifill: but on friday evening at the annual white house dinner marking the start of the muslim holy month of ramadan, the president weighed in. instantly igniting the essentially local issue into a national debate....
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here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: president obama granted waivers to ten states today-- excusing them from requirements of the "no child left behind" law. the law mandated that all public school students be proficient in reading and math by 2014. but opponents said the goal was unrealistic, and that schools falling short were being punished unfairly. republicans said the president was overreaching his authority, in granting the waivers. states given a waiver will have to set new targets for improving student performance. the u.s. house has overwhelmingly approved its version of a bill that bans members of congress from insider stock trading. it also affects officials in the executive branch. the issue gathered steam after a cbs report last fall that lawmakers were enriching themselves by trading on information not available to the public. house majority leader eric cantor wrote the measure. >> people in this country have the right to know and trust that officials in this government are living under the same rules they are. if there is even the slightest appearance of impropriety,
here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: president obama granted waivers to ten states today-- excusing them from requirements of the "no child left behind" law. the law mandated that all public school students be proficient in reading and math by 2014. but opponents said the goal was unrealistic, and that schools falling short were being punished unfairly. republicans said the president was overreaching his authority, in granting the waivers. states given a waiver will have to...
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in recent days, president obama pushed again for tax fairness in the form of a so- called buffet rule. >> you might have heard of this but warren buffet is paying a lower tax rate than his secretary. now that's wrong. that's not fair. >> ifill: the president wanted a minimum 30% tax rate on people making more than a million dollars a year. >> i'm saying you're bringing in a million bucks or more a year. then what the rule says is you should pay the same percentage of your income in taxes as middle class families do. and if we do that, then it makes it affordable for us to be able to say for those people who me under $2,000 a year, like 98% of american families do, then your taxes don't go up. >> ifill: but the senate voting largely along party lines rejected that approach last night. republicans dismissed it today as little more than an election year gimmick. >> what we've seen happen this week with the so-called buffet rule is transparent to the american people. it pre-tends like they're not smart enough to understand exactly the gamesmanship that is going on here. and that the presi
in recent days, president obama pushed again for tax fairness in the form of a so- called buffet rule. >> you might have heard of this but warren buffet is paying a lower tax rate than his secretary. now that's wrong. that's not fair. >> ifill: the president wanted a minimum 30% tax rate on people making more than a million dollars a year. >> i'm saying you're bringing in a million bucks or more a year. then what the rule says is you should pay the same percentage of your...
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bush and then barack obama on the need, as your other guests said, for strong keynesian stimulus when the entire financial system internationally seemed on the brink of collapse. whereas in the last two or three months, certainly since the election, it's been clear that the british debate has diverged from that in the united states and that even the labour opposition, wi few exceptions, doesn't argue any longer that you need a purely keynesian response. there are voices within labour who still believe that but the people who are on the front bench, that is the leader of the opposition and the shadow chancellor are pretty much on board with the need at some stage to confront the deficit as a priority. >> brown: ned temko in london, zanny minton beddoes here, thank you both. >> lehrer: now to some campaign politics: both major political parties are waging a heated below-the-radar battle to win control of statehouses across the country. that's because with new census numbers state legislators are poised to redraw america's political map. "newshour" correspondent kwame holman has the late
bush and then barack obama on the need, as your other guests said, for strong keynesian stimulus when the entire financial system internationally seemed on the brink of collapse. whereas in the last two or three months, certainly since the election, it's been clear that the british debate has diverged from that in the united states and that even the labour opposition, wi few exceptions, doesn't argue any longer that you need a purely keynesian response. there are voices within labour who still...
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, has changed just under barack obama. there was a time when democrats were seen as soft and you could hear the echoes of that language that somehow he'd turned over the prosecution of the war on terror to the a.c.l.u., i think was one of the charges that representative bachmann made. that must be news to the c.i.a. after the capture and elimination of osama bin laden. and then the use of drones, to the extent they have been. but it's interting because while obama is just in terrible, terrible shape on question of people's approval of his handling of the economy, disapproval, basically, on his handling of terrorism, americans almost by a two to one margin approves of what he's done. that changedly the dynamic. it was always interesting to see newt gingrich emerge-- he is somebody who i think i owe an apology to because when his entire staff quit and he stopped raising money, and went to the greek isle with his wife, i said this guy is dead. and he said, no, i will climb back in through the debates. and through my big ideal
, has changed just under barack obama. there was a time when democrats were seen as soft and you could hear the echoes of that language that somehow he'd turned over the prosecution of the war on terror to the a.c.l.u., i think was one of the charges that representative bachmann made. that must be news to the c.i.a. after the capture and elimination of osama bin laden. and then the use of drones, to the extent they have been. but it's interting because while obama is just in terrible, terrible...
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people are paying attention to ad and debates and not going romney and he's losing every time. if you're not going forward you're going backwards and he doesn't extend his argument. he sits there playing it safe talking about barack obama and just not closing the deal and the specific case which mark talked about was the taxes and i spoke to some campaign professionals who said i can imagine where the meetings were like where the aides go romney and say we have to talk about taxes then candidates generally say something like i got it under control don't worry. they're uncomfortable and the aides are uncomfortable and can't turn it around. he's just not aggressive because he's not just letting it all hang out there. >> you're saying you don't think he's comfortable talking about how much money he's worth? >> yeah. we talked last week about the need -- i think the need for him to give a speech about his business career and say this is success in america and went down after we spoke last week to south carolina and asked dozens of people about bayne and barely find anybody minded.
people are paying attention to ad and debates and not going romney and he's losing every time. if you're not going forward you're going backwards and he doesn't extend his argument. he sits there playing it safe talking about barack obama and just not closing the deal and the specific case which mark talked about was the taxes and i spoke to some campaign professionals who said i can imagine where the meetings were like where the aides go romney and say we have to talk about taxes then...
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, that seems where the debate is among economists and the academy. would be great to see obama merge those two. >> woodruff: are there other solution it is president should be putting out there? >> i think his solutions are all -- sense. but they are -- they're not new. i mean, that's the problem and that gives speaker boehner and the others a chance to take a pot shot at it. but it is -- it's an enormous -- i mean, increasing the minimum wage is good. early childhood education. they're all good. job training. those are all good ideas and i think they're all important. but i -- i don't think -- it's not let's marge. and it's tough, let's be blunt about it. it's tough for a president in this environment 24/7 all the rest of it for a presidential speech to break through. i mean, you know, it really is -- it isn't like when i was young or even when david was young when a president spoke i mean, it kind of commanded the attention of the nation. and i think it's tough to do that. >> i remember when i was young and george w. bush was speaking. >> that's ri
, that seems where the debate is among economists and the academy. would be great to see obama merge those two. >> woodruff: are there other solution it is president should be putting out there? >> i think his solutions are all -- sense. but they are -- they're not new. i mean, that's the problem and that gives speaker boehner and the others a chance to take a pot shot at it. but it is -- it's an enormous -- i mean, increasing the minimum wage is good. early childhood education....
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. >> brown: we debate the obama administration's enviromental record under jackson's tenure with michael brune, executive director of the sierra club, one of the oldest environmental groups in the country. and kenneth green, senior fellow on energy and natural resources for the fraser institute, a canadian based think tank. making brune, we start with you. a quick overview first. four years in as the obama administration -- has the obama administration achieved what you'd hoped for? >> four years in the obama administration has done a great job and they do have some unfinished business but when you look at doubling the vehicle efficiency in just four years, that's a remarkable achievement. taking the amount of mercury and arsenic and die i don't think serious bodily injurys and air toxics out of the atmosphere from coal-fired power plants, that's an amazing victory. when you add on top of that a rule that was just announced last month to limit the amount of soot coming from power plant facilities across the country, those are just three rules among dozens that have had a big impact on ke
. >> brown: we debate the obama administration's enviromental record under jackson's tenure with michael brune, executive director of the sierra club, one of the oldest environmental groups in the country. and kenneth green, senior fellow on energy and natural resources for the fraser institute, a canadian based think tank. making brune, we start with you. a quick overview first. four years in as the obama administration -- has the obama administration achieved what you'd hoped for?...
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they can see if they like the debates as much as everyone else did. that's the one positive thing that stands out. and they can register their... or express their opinions about what is to come, whether there will be some progress, some political progress, and compare their outlook with the outlook of voters that we've polled. >> sreenivasan:: now the first part that we launched earlier in the election cycle, it's been fairly successful. a lot of people took those 12 questions or so that you have been asking for dozens of years and compared themselves against where they exactly are in that political spectrum. >> we found... i think we are approaching 1 million point 4 people who have taken this test since i think we put it up in late september. >> sreenivasan:: ok and finally, you made a little bit of news this week. you are changing your roll at pew. what does that mean? >> it means i will no longer be president and chief executive. i am going to be founding director which sounds very ancient but it is what is. i am going to work on politics and glob
they can see if they like the debates as much as everyone else did. that's the one positive thing that stands out. and they can register their... or express their opinions about what is to come, whether there will be some progress, some political progress, and compare their outlook with the outlook of voters that we've polled. >> sreenivasan:: now the first part that we launched earlier in the election cycle, it's been fairly successful. a lot of people took those 12 questions or so that...
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in terms of what the obama administration can do, i think this gives us the opportunity and significant leverage with the chinese to increase the amnt of transparency and debate on cyber and espeal to inease the dialogue with the people at the center. >> woodruff: is it the sort of thing a company or individual can say sign up for security software and prevent? >> i wouldn't worry necessarily as an individual but as a company i would download the report, i would take it to my i.t. or security staff and say what are we doing about the issues in this report? and then at the higher level, at the strategic level, i would swhal is my government doing about this? what is the position that we're going to take with the chinese. the they now have a hold they can use in discussion with our llie the chinese government that is not classified, it's unclassified. >> woodruff: very quickly, are we talking about legislation or somethat that can be done by executives? >> well, many support the legislation that chairman rogers who has put forth and for anyone who has privacy reports look at the report, y
in terms of what the obama administration can do, i think this gives us the opportunity and significant leverage with the chinese to increase the amnt of transparency and debate on cyber and espeal to inease the dialogue with the people at the center. >> woodruff: is it the sort of thing a company or individual can say sign up for security software and prevent? >> i wouldn't worry necessarily as an individual but as a company i would download the report, i would take it to my i.t....
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that president obama's prospects do not look good. 55% said they believe mr. obama will lose in 2012. for his part, the president embraced the poll finding yesterday in an interview with abc news and yahoo. >> are you the underdog now. >> absolutely. because, you know, given the economy there's no doubt that, you know, whatever happens on your watch you've got.... >> you embraced that pretty quickly. >> you know, i don't mind. i'm used to be an underdog. >> woodruff: ahead of his visit to st. louis tonight, the president received a reminder of just how bruising the campaign will be. in the form of a tevision ad from the conservative organization american cross roads. >> he raised our hopes. he seemed to understand. >> the last thing you want to do is to raise taxes in the middle of a recession. >> but today he's different. >> woodruff: that's a refrain mr. obama may hear over and over again no matter who ends up as the republican nominee. for more on the race for the white house, we are joined by newshour political editor david chalian and national political c
that president obama's prospects do not look good. 55% said they believe mr. obama will lose in 2012. for his part, the president embraced the poll finding yesterday in an interview with abc news and yahoo. >> are you the underdog now. >> absolutely. because, you know, given the economy there's no doubt that, you know, whatever happens on your watch you've got.... >> you embraced that pretty quickly. >> you know, i don't mind. i'm used to be an underdog. >>...
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barack obama? >> brown: the head of a pro gingrich group, rick tyler, went further calling romney, quote, despicable and disgraceful. with the vitriol flying, late polls gave romney a double-digit lead. a survey of likely republican voters in florida showed him with a 14-point advantage. 43 to 29%. gingrich insisted he was closing the gap, but romney told report hes, quote, you can sense it's coming our way. elsewhere former pennsylvania senator rick santorum returned to campaigning today in missouri. he canceled weekend appearances in florida after his three-year-old daughter was hospitalized with pneumonia. and texas congressman ron paul kept his focus on states holding february caucuses where he's expected to perform better. but much of the focus in florida today remained on conservative voters. judy woodruff has been sampling their views leading up to the primary. ♪ o, say can you see? >> woodruff: the crowds who showed up in winter park on short notice for a tea party express bus tour to ral
barack obama? >> brown: the head of a pro gingrich group, rick tyler, went further calling romney, quote, despicable and disgraceful. with the vitriol flying, late polls gave romney a double-digit lead. a survey of likely republican voters in florida showed him with a 14-point advantage. 43 to 29%. gingrich insisted he was closing the gap, but romney told report hes, quote, you can sense it's coming our way. elsewhere former pennsylvania senator rick santorum returned to campaigning today...
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that is the other problem with the obama strategy. they talk about manufacturing. we have a strong manufacturing sector. it happens to be 10% of employment. we are a service economy, and we have to have a stragy for a service economy. >> i come back to the belief that we have to make something in this country. and we have to finally starting to make something. and i think that is important. there answer to your question, jeffrey, about is it-- does it have political sal currency there is no question that president obama's message about fairness, about playing by the same rules, about everybody having a fair shot, plays far better as a message in these times and situations like this than does mitt romney, which is sort of aback to the future, we need less regulation, less government, smaller involvement. and i think in that sense, the advantage goes to obama and the democrats. >> suarez: . >> brown: okay, another event this week is the beginning bubbling up, dare i say it, of the debt soling debate again. a debate that got kicked down the road last year. was this, d
that is the other problem with the obama strategy. they talk about manufacturing. we have a strong manufacturing sector. it happens to be 10% of employment. we are a service economy, and we have to have a stragy for a service economy. >> i come back to the belief that we have to make something in this country. and we have to finally starting to make something. and i think that is important. there answer to your question, jeffrey, about is it-- does it have political sal currency there is...
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today, inside the o obama administration over just how har to take the war against terrorists. whether to carry it as far as the foot soldiers, for example in somalia, in yemen who are worried about parochial concerns about land or just, to restrict it to the high level individuals who have-- may have plotted an attack against the united states. >> well, but it's difficult to sort of apply those kind of concepts to some organization like al qaeda. we had abu al czar kari for example, a jordanian by birth, imprisoned, ended up in afghanistan running a training camp for al qaeda and became the head of al qaeda in iraq. national boundaries didn't mean anything. eventually we killed him but after he had done enormous damage over a long period of time. now dow want to catch him early in his career when he first commits a terrorist act or dow want to wait until he becomes the leader of all the al qaeda in iraq. >> woodruff: you are saying you do draw the line or you don't. >> i don't think you can. think you have to be aware that there is a threat out there. and that if you find peop
today, inside the o obama administration over just how har to take the war against terrorists. whether to carry it as far as the foot soldiers, for example in somalia, in yemen who are worried about parochial concerns about land or just, to restrict it to the high level individuals who have-- may have plotted an attack against the united states. >> well, but it's difficult to sort of apply those kind of concepts to some organization like al qaeda. we had abu al czar kari for example, a...
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we'll have full coverage of the supreme court arguments tomorrow. >> ifill: the immigration debate cuts both ways. as tom mentioned in his story, illegal border crossings are actually down. that's one fact documented in a new study. margaret warner has more. >> warner: that new study is from the pew hispanic center, and its findings are surprising. between 2005 and 2010, the wave of mexican immigrants, legal and illegal, into the u.s. was offset by an equal number of mexican migrants returning home. this new equilibrium partly reflects lower mexican immigration into the u.s., from 770,000 at its peak in 2000 to just 140,000 in 2010. buit also reflectsn increa in the number of returnees to mexico, some 1.4 million between 2005 and 2010. for more on the numbers and what's behind them, we go to jeffrey passel, a senior demographer at the pew hispanic center and a co-author of the report. welcome. this is a fascinating report. >> thank you very much. >> warner: now, you've been studying immigration in the united states for decades. headline on this "net migration from mexico falls to zero,
we'll have full coverage of the supreme court arguments tomorrow. >> ifill: the immigration debate cuts both ways. as tom mentioned in his story, illegal border crossings are actually down. that's one fact documented in a new study. margaret warner has more. >> warner: that new study is from the pew hispanic center, and its findings are surprising. between 2005 and 2010, the wave of mexican immigrants, legal and illegal, into the u.s. was offset by an equal number of mexican...
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we have our own debate about this and its potential impact. neera tanden is president of the center for american progress. she previously worked for the obama administration working on health care reform. and tevi troy is a senior fellow at the hudson institute. he served as mitt romney's healthcare policy adviser during the presidential campaign. and tevi troy, if we phase in a higher age for medicare eligibility, do you really save much money? >> yeah, over a ten-year period we're looking at $125 billion in savings. over a 75-year period we're looking at a trillion dollars off medicare's long-term liability. so this is real money. it makes a real difference. over 20 years 5% savings. look, the kohut argument is that people want cuts but they don't want to pay for the cuts. policymakers have to make choices about what the best cuts are. >> suarez: are there any countervailing costs we have to worry about? if you move the bar from 65 to 67 don't people arrive at the threshold after years of underinsurance or uninsurance sicker and thus more ex
we have our own debate about this and its potential impact. neera tanden is president of the center for american progress. she previously worked for the obama administration working on health care reform. and tevi troy is a senior fellow at the hudson institute. he served as mitt romney's healthcare policy adviser during the presidential campaign. and tevi troy, if we phase in a higher age for medicare eligibility, do you really save much money? >> yeah, over a ten-year period we're...
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. >> reporter: as the debate cranks up, president obama will stay on the road tonight, leaving snowy iowa for arizona, on a three-day tour of five battleground states. >> ifill: now, where the president's state of the union speech hit and missed the mark. glenn kessler writes the factcheck column for the "washington post." he joins me now. so, glenn, these big speeches to joint sessions of congress are by definition full of glittering political generalities. how do you tell... how do you begin to measure what's true and what's not? >> well, i take what the president says or what any speaker like that, particularly if they throw out facts and figures i try to go and look at the source of where have that fact and figure came from. particularly in a case of the state of the union address. it's very much like the prosecutor's case in a final argument in a trial. he's going to make his case and so he often will skip over things that are... that don't support his case and so that's where i come in and try to provide some additional context or the facts as they may be. >> ifill: well, help
. >> reporter: as the debate cranks up, president obama will stay on the road tonight, leaving snowy iowa for arizona, on a three-day tour of five battleground states. >> ifill: now, where the president's state of the union speech hit and missed the mark. glenn kessler writes the factcheck column for the "washington post." he joins me now. so, glenn, these big speeches to joint sessions of congress are by definition full of glittering political generalities. how do you...
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. >> brown: the president took a break today from the debate on jobs policy. but the republican leader in the house presented an alternative set of ideas on taxes, regulation, and entitlements. it's been one week since president obama laid out his jobs package, a $447 billion mix of tax breaks, public works spending, and jobless benefits. today, house speaker john boehner offered a republican response. he said while some of the president's plan offers "opportunities for common ground;" overall, it's not enough. >> the president's proposals are a poor substitute for the pro- growth policies that are needed to remove barriers to job creation in america, the policies that are needed to put america back to work. >> brown: the speaker said what job creators really want is an end to uncertainty created by the burdens of taxes and new regulations. >> they've been hurt by a government that offers short- term gimmicks rather than fundamental reforms that will encourage long-term economic growth. they've been hampered by a government that offers confusion to entrepreneu
. >> brown: the president took a break today from the debate on jobs policy. but the republican leader in the house presented an alternative set of ideas on taxes, regulation, and entitlements. it's been one week since president obama laid out his jobs package, a $447 billion mix of tax breaks, public works spending, and jobless benefits. today, house speaker john boehner offered a republican response. he said while some of the president's plan offers "opportunities for common...
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. >> lehrer: the debate over the new start nuclear arms treaty with russia. the obama administration today again urged the senate to ratify it before the end of the year. margaret warner has our story. >> warner: the obama administration stepped up the pressure today to approve a new nuclear weapons treaty with russia before this congress expires. secretary of state hillary clinton went to the capitol, to urge the lame-duck senate to vote now. >> for anyone to think that we can postpone it or we can avoid it is, i'm afraid, vastly underestimating the continuing threat that is posed to our country. so we hope our friends in the senate will bring this up, pass this treaty, and then i can inform the russians that it's now their... you know, their turn to do the same. >> warner: clinton was responding to senator jon kyl, the republicans' point man on the issue. he stunned the administration yesterday, saying he did not think the treaty should be brought up in the lame duck session. he cited the press of other business and unresolved issues on the treaty. new star
. >> lehrer: the debate over the new start nuclear arms treaty with russia. the obama administration today again urged the senate to ratify it before the end of the year. margaret warner has our story. >> warner: the obama administration stepped up the pressure today to approve a new nuclear weapons treaty with russia before this congress expires. secretary of state hillary clinton went to the capitol, to urge the lame-duck senate to vote now. >> for anyone to think that we...
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. >> woodruff: president obama today denied the application for a hotly debated oil pipeline project. the keystone pipeline would have carried oil 1,700 miles from the tar sands of canada to refineries in port arthur, texas. hari sreenivasan has the story. >> sreenivasan: the president had postponed consideration of a permit last summer, citing environmental concerns. but republicans demanded a decision, as part of december's deal on extending the payroll tax cut. in a statement today, mr. obama said he would not support the pipeline now bausen his words: but house speaker john boehner criticized the decision, saying: juliet eilperin has been covering this story for the "washington post" and she joins me now. what was the larger rationale for the administration to oppose this pipeline? >> their argument is that they had been looking at an alternative route through nebraska which has environmentally sensitive habitat and a place called the sand hills rejohn and they had asked trans-canada to work with nebraska's department of environmental quality and look for a new way to do this and
. >> woodruff: president obama today denied the application for a hotly debated oil pipeline project. the keystone pipeline would have carried oil 1,700 miles from the tar sands of canada to refineries in port arthur, texas. hari sreenivasan has the story. >> sreenivasan: the president had postponed consideration of a permit last summer, citing environmental concerns. but republicans demanded a decision, as part of december's deal on extending the payroll tax cut. in a statement...
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find out how they graded responses from president obama and mitt romney. andn our making sense page, paul once again features the musical stylings of monetary minstrel jon shayne, the nashville investment manager whose stage name is merle his latest is an animated video called "fiscal cliff." americans are visiting the doctor less often. that's when health care premiums aren't rising much. that is on the rundown. all that and more on our website all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. >> ifill: and that's the newshour for tonight. on wednesday, we'll look at new census numbers on the number of americans living in poverty. i'm gwen ifill. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. we'll see you online, and again here tomorrow evening. thank you, and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> bnsf railway. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. and wh thongoing suort of these instutis and foundations. and... this
find out how they graded responses from president obama and mitt romney. andn our making sense page, paul once again features the musical stylings of monetary minstrel jon shayne, the nashville investment manager whose stage name is merle his latest is an animated video called "fiscal cliff." americans are visiting the doctor less often. that's when health care premiums aren't rising much. that is on the rundown. all that and more on our website all that and more is on our web site,...